Matthew McConaughey is very much like the characters hes played in a few of his movies. Hes easy going, laid back, charming and very easy to talk to. He plays another one of those guys in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch. His character Trip is a wealthy boat broker who still lives with his parents at age 35! So his parents hire Sarah Jessica Parker to fall in love with him so he will have the confidence to move out.

Daniel Robert Epstein: We heard that one of the trained chipmunks died while shooting.

Matthew McConaughey: Yeah his own trainer fell on top of him. When it happened all of the sudden the woods got really quiet. This little whisper started going around, "Did the chipmunk die?" It was all just too weird and it was honestly sad. The guy was really hurt. It was odd. You're in the woods, you've got a chipmunk wrangler with the best chipmunk with the biggest filmography in the business.

DRE: How did the role come to you?

MM: I got offered the role, read it and I thought it was really funny. Then I met with [director] Tom [Dey] a few times. We discussed the writing of the character throughout the whole thing.

DRE: Your character seems like the character from Dazed and Confused with a real job.

MM: He is a little bit of Wooderson. Everything's just water off his back.

DRE: When'd you move out of your parents place?

MM: I moved out two weeks after high school and I went to Australia for a year. As much as I liked living there, I was ready to get the hell out and see what life's about.

It was real important to me that my character had a good relationship with his parents. It would have been real easy to say, "Oh, the parents ran him out of the house because he's a pain in the ass. That's not the reason. They dig him there. They're going to miss him and he's going to miss them. He's a boat broker; he probably dreams about sailing around the world.

DRE: How much do you know about boats?

MM: I've been sailing about five or six times. I wouldn't captain my own boat, but the highways of the world are like rivers. So when I travel around in my trailer Im doing my own version of sailing.

DRE: Trip cant move out because he has a deep rooted problem.

MM: Trip doesn't look at that as a problem. He had fiance that he loved that moved on from his life. She's still in his heart. I know a lot of people who've lost the love of their life and have been unable to open themselves to someone else. But that's not what the story's about. That's heavy drama stuff but that's his real basis for staying at home. Plus, he's got a hell of a gig at home, he doesn't have to pay rent, mom's a great cook, she makes the bed, what's not to like?

DRE: When did you first meet Sarah Jessica?

MM: I met her when I did a Sex in the City episode. We had a fun, quick time. I've long been a fan of hers.

DRE: Tom Dey has said you two have very different styles. She nails it right away and you like do figure it out while youre there.

MM: Sarah is very professional about how she wants to do it. She sticks to the dialogue and does that wonderfully. I'm much looser. I sometimes like being told, Here's the situation, go handle it.

DRE: Failure to Launch is about unhappy people who get a little happier. It's all about being deceitful; it just wouldn't work if everyone came out and said the truth.

MM: That's what makes it fun. There is always some mischief in these things. Somebody's doing something other than what you think they're doing. Someone's got a secret that the other person doesn't know about. I think what's fun in the structure of these movies is that the audience is in on it but one of the characters isn't. I like to be the guy that has to go in and think he's got the situation completely handled, but it turns out to be something different than he thought.

DRE: You had a very slapstick part in the Bill Murray movie, Larger than Life. Would you ever want to do another role like that?

MM: Sure. I've got a couple of things in development that are really wild, off their rocker characters like that.

DRE: Can you talk about it?

MM: There's one called The Grackle we're still working on. Hes a goofy professional hitman, but he gets his ass beat every time. He loves to fight but he never wins. We're developing the script right now. That'll be something that's completely out there. That'll just be a blast with every frame of the film.

DRE: Do you ever want to settle down?

MM: Moving is still standing still to me. I'm not going to quit having adventures and traveling. Maybe someday I'll have someone to go with me on some of those. Nothing fills my spirit as much as traveling and going to new places that I don't know anything about.

DRE: Do you feel you're riding a career peak at this point?

MM: Things are good right now, that's for sure. You stay in the game long enough, it goes like a wave. You keep riding, keep swimming.

DRE: What's next?

MM: We Are Marshall is coming out in March. It's based on a true story about the Marshall football team in 1970 who all died in a plane crash.